I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

It is said that there is never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart. The shroud that covers this free spirit is woven by the complex threads of society.

Go put on your mask.Say 'trick-or-treat' in costume.It’s All Hallows Eve.

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Pain is erased when inflicted upon others.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

Control is an illusion.

Don't punish yourself for what others have done to you. You're better than them. You're better than you think.

The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now.